Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-12
GALVESTON.
Mayor Fulton Returns from Florida and
Speaks About the Coast Defense
Association Proceedings.
John sealy, Deceased, Leaves a VIII Be
questhiDg the City 5000 for
Hospital Establishment

queathiDg the City $50, 900 for
Hospital Establishment
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Ten, Feb. l1-Mayor
Fulton returned to-day from Defuniak
Springs, Fla, where he went last Sunday
as delegate TO the National Coast De-
Tense Convention. As mayor or the most
important seaport on the Gulf coast, he
nominated seven wealthy End well known
citizens to attend this important con-
yention, but strange to record, not
q single one of these gentlemen could
find time to attend the convention, and
Mayor Fulton was the only delegate from
| Texas. People along the Atlantic Coast
are at last realizing their helpless, de
fenseless condition, and Mayor Fulton
predicts before great while
that this question will become
one of the most prominent
issues before the American people. The
Mayor was chosen one of the vice-presi-
dents Of the convention and member of
the committee appointed to memorabilia
Congress on the gravity of the country's
defenseless condition along the coasts.
a special meeting of the City Council
was held this evening to consider GER
| tain propositions touching the establish
ment in this city of the medical branch
J of the Texas State University. The
proposition in question will prove well
come surprise throughout the state,
I since it embraces q gift of
$4,000 by the estate of the late
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! building to be connected with the medical
branch of the university. This munitl-
cent gift is conditioned upon the passage
I by the present Legislature of a law
establishing the medical branch of
! the university at Galveston and pro-
viding for the erection and maintenance
of the institution. The announcement of
the gift was made to the Council
through DR.. Payance and q committee of
local physicians, who read letter dated
the 9th inst. from George Sealy, stating
that the will of his late
brother John Sealy contemplated a
muniicent snd beneficial gift
to the city and state of his adoption, for
/ the cause of humanity and that this tes-
tsmentary injunction of his late brother
! would in large degree be fulfilled in
donation of $4,000 for the erection
of free hospital in con-
nection with the state medical col
| lege. The city cguncil was convened by
the Mayor for the purpose of taking
| immediate steps toward memorializing
the Legislature to establish the college
I here and thus secure to the city the
splendid gift which is expressly condi-
toned that the present Legislature To-
! a. Oh, -f
the university in this city as was
originally intended when the act passed
endowing the university itself 1t is
the intention of the board of aldermen
to present the state with cleat
title to square of va u
able property situated at the east end
at present occupied by q public school.
The ordinance donating this ground to
the state would have been passed
this evening, but the council
deferred the matter until next
Monday, when certain legal questions as
to the city's power TO make the donation
will have been passed on. The committee
of local physicians having the matter in
charge read very interesting report
showing the necessity eff a medical college
in Texas and enumerating the
many precedents for the sepsra-
ton ard location of the medical
branches of universities at points distant
from the seat of such university. They
point to the Harvard medical branch
located at Boston, the Philadelphia
State Medical Institute which Is
branch of the State University
located il another city. Among other
statistical facts collated by the committee
was the statement that Texas sent over
| 200 medical students to The east and north
every year to be educated, and that these
students annually spent over 100000
in acquiring their medical education.
The committee points out the hos
pital advantages that Galveston has
over Austin. The report will DE printed
and thousand copies sent to the Legisla-
ture and medical fraternity of the state.
Altogether it begins to look as if Texas
was about to take an important step for
ward in the matter of medical education.
Messrs. Greenwall & Sons, the well
known theatrical managers, inaugurated
season of very superior entertainments
last night with Kate Claxton and her
company in The Two Orphans, which
was followed tonight with splen,,
did presentation of Called Back
The box-office sales for Robson &
Crane began to-day, netting $500. These.
famous comedians occupy the boards, be-
ginning Monday night. Following stnis
comedy comes the great tragic actor,
Edwin Booth, whose advent is eagerly
looked forward to by the theater-going
public. ssa
PINK ARD s. JOYGes
This wide-swakeef rtn are still selling
- FURNITURE
at the Old stand at low prices, and on the